Portland General Electric (PGE): Clean Power Generation Wind Project in Biglow Canyon &amp;#x00026; Boardman Coal Plant

Yates, Diane; Jimenez, Bertha; Peng, Yicheng

doi:10.1109/picmet.2007.4349588

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“…Despite widespread concerns about the negative environmental implications of biomass for greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution (Hudiburg et al., 2011; Johnson, 2009; Miles and Miles, 1992), industry activists, community organizations, and government representatives have advocated for biomass to be viewed not only as a renewable fuel source but also a carbon-neutral source of energy. Indeed, the politics of carbon emissions have figured centrally in debates over biomass energy, especially in the proposed biomass conversion of Oregon’s only remaining coal power plant (Flatt, 2019). Additionally, forest ecology, type of woody biomass, processing, and temporalities of carbon storage/sequestration in trees vary life-cycle carbon emissions (Creutzig et al., 2015; Lamers and Junginger, 2013; Luyssaert et al., 2008; Röder et al., 2015; Zanchi et al., 2012).…”

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Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry

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Knuth

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2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecological scholarship tells us that such definitions are meaningful. Indeed, labeling energy sources as renewable has become a power-laden act, which may spark innovation, yet simultaneously creates openings for problematic classifications and unjust socio-ecological relations. However, we still know too little about how such classification politics are taking shape within green industrial policy formation; particularly, how they encounter incumbent industries and industrial regions. In this paper, we argue that these theoretical questions are crucial for an emerging industrial political ecology and explore three recent developments in the US context. A country that has notoriously avoided open and coordinated national industrial policy, the United States has approached the renewable energy economy in a similarly geographically fragmented fashion. We highlight a central yet under-examined tool in US energy-industrial policy: the renewable portfolio standard. Mandated by 30 states, renewable portfolio standards are the US’s central mechanism for renewable energy procurement—yet renewable portfolio standards diverge substantially from state to state in terms of the energy sources they classify and incentivize as renewable. We argue that industrial interests and state governments have together capitalized upon renewable portfolio standards’ malleability to support regionally significant sectors, including “dirty” industries and industrial wastes. These industries, often controversially, thereby position themselves for rebranding and new forms of value capture.

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